Garden, concert and orienteering

Not much happened since I last posted. During the week the garden was beginning to show real improvement due to some nice weather days, although now it is getting really cold again, which worries me with the possibility of below zero temperatures at night.

The mint and lemon balm patch

The peas are beginning to poke their heads through, which is great, except if frost comes in the night. I suppose there was always that danger, planting them this early. We also separated some of the strawberry plants from last year, so now hopefully we should have a better crop.

The first few peas

The separated strawberry plants

The roses are really going, the rhubarb is of triffid proportions and even the raspberry sticks that we planted last autumn are showing signs of life. 10 out of 16 seems to have taken, which is not brilliant, but acceptable.

The roses by the back terrace

A sprouting raspberry bush

The old rhubarb patch

On Friday we came into town, this time by car and both of us. On Saturday I had a concert, which for once I didn't like.  The guy playing the violin had great virtuoso skills, but I couldn't identify with his style and attitude to some of the pieces he played. This does not happen often, but even once is one too many. I went home a bit cross, which had never ever happened to me before.

Finally, today I went orienteering, which was great. I am still very unfit, but this was on terrain where even the fit ones could hardly run.  It was rough, steep and very technical.  I loved every minute of it. Due to my slowness I made no mistakes and I ended up beating one of my rivals by about a quarter of an hour, which pleased me no end. As you can see it was 3.2km with 180m of climb and I took 73 minutes. As we were both on an Open course for those entering on the day, it didn't matter where exactly we came, but finishing 15 minutes ahead of her made me feel good.